Christmas 2015 Newsletter of The Silver Cherry Vol. 25 Issue 1

Not His Father'sCutting Boards

25th Annual Christmas Open House Weekend!

This WeekendDecember 5th And 6th

10:00 AM - 5:00 PMBoth Saturday & Sunday

Wicked Good Hor d'oeuvres !A Creative And Imaginative Sales Force

Of Experts Here To Cater To Your Every Whim!

Savings On Redway Furniture!Jam-Packed Full Of Fun Holiday Gifts!

James RedwayBuilds A Time Machine

The Silver Cherry Holiday Hours

Tuesday - Friday 11:00 AM - 4:00 PMSaturday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PMSunday 11:00 AM- 3:30 PM

Close Mondays

Open and poised for action, The Silver Cherry revs up for our 25th Annual Christmas Open House Weekend. Come join us at our festive little Christmas shop for a rousing good time this weekend, and peruse through our store of imagi-native gifts, and the finest cherry furniture. We have more furniture in stock than we ever have.

We will be featuring our Knightlite Firehouse Seasoning Blend on our nearly-famous, "What The Heck Smells So Good Chicken Wings!" Plus our "Open House Chili", and our "Signature Soups." What could be better!

In a world where everything is designed for the minute, updated instantly and destined to go out

of style within months, wouldn’t it be refreshing if something was designed to transcend not only the next trending hashtag, but time itself with its simplicity, beauty, and the inherent honesty of handmade American Furniture. We build time machines by designing furniture that never goes out of style, and will last for generations to come. Our furniture, if properly taken care of, will last for hundreds of years. We employ the same time-tested joinery techniques used in 18th Century furniture design, which is why thousands of such pieces are still in use today.

All Redway furniture is crafted from solid Ameri-can Black Cherry. Table frames are joined with double-pinned mortise and tenon construction. Steps and drawers are constructed using hand-cut dovetails. Each piece is signed, dated, numbered and branded with our hallmark. We offer a 30 day money back satisfaction guarantee and a lifetime warranty on workmanship. Come to The Silver Cherry this holiday season and purchase one of our solid cherry time machines. Open House Sale December 5th and 6th. $25.00 off any piece of furniture in the store.

Guess who is making furniture now? That's my youngest son Jason. Jason was hurt last winter with a very severe finger injury which scored a 10 on "Liza's Fainting Scale" ... a commonly used scale for measuring the severity of injuries in our family. He announced that he wanted to learn how to build furniture. My first thought was, what a great idea, lets have him recover from his finger injury by working around a whole-bunch of extremely sharp spinning saw blades. Well, being the typical "guy" who throws caution to the wind and up for any kind of tomfoolery, I said, what the heck, lets give it a try... at least until someone gets hurt.

When I first learned to build furniture it was all trial and error with the emphasis on ERROR! Consequently at first, I built a lot of expensive, solid cherry firewood. This was not the case with Jason. He is an absolute natural. Not only is he starting to master many of the techniques we use to create our furniture, he is beginning to design his own creations.

This brings us to our cutting board theme. My idea of cutting boards utilizes the "small vanilla cone" concept of design...very simple and not too flashy. I believe that alternating cherry in black walnut strips in a cutting board is a bit meretricious, but Jason believes that boring would make a better adjective.

Jason builds his cutting boards using a variety of species of hardwoods which include, cherry, black walnut, ash, oak, tiger maple, maple, mahogany, and birch. He also utilizes a variety of shapes and incorporates cross-section inlays and other really cool techniques.

He meticulously chooses each strip and arranges them by thickness, color, grain, and coolness. He told me once, you don't put the Tiger Maple piece in the middle, but on the side, so you can see more of the grain.

Suffice to say, these are not his father's cutting boards. No small vanilla cone here. If you want to give a truly special holiday gift this year, created by someone who put a lot of thought into each piece, buy one of Jason Redway's cutting boards. Prices range from $8.00 to $48.00.

The Christmas TableOnly 4 in stock.Save $25.00 Open House Weekend.

Only $255.00Regular Price $280.00

This WeekendKo Ko KANA Cookies

Come in this weekend for some of our famous Ko Ko Kana Spicy Ginger and Molasses Cookies

freshly baked for your enjoyment. A Silver Cherry Holiday Tradition. These are the best cookies in the world! They are Ko Ko Kana Good!

$6.00/Bag

Wine Cork Wreath FromMiddlebury Fine Wine & Spirits

Crystal Glowing Christmas Trees - We have a limited supply of these handsome glowing Christmas trees. These LED lights change colors and come in three distinctive sizes: 10.5", 15", and 18". They automatically turn themselves on and will remain on for 6 hours before turning themselves back off again. A great holiday decoration. Batteries Included.Priced at $18.00, $20.00, and $25.00

Frosty Glowing Christmas Trees - New at The Silver Cherry, attractive glowing Christmas trees. These LED lights change colors and stand 6" tall. They automatically turn themselves on and will remain on for 4 hours before turning themselves back off again. A great holiday decoration for your table, mantle, or anywhere a else where festiveness is required. Only $8.95. Batteries Included.

Deck The Halls - And All The Rest Of The Rooms With Cool New Stuff

When you buy wine at Middlebury Fine Wine and Spirits, you actually are only renting the corks, because lots of customers return their corks to the store, so Adelaide Heusted can create these attrac-tive cork wreaths just in time for the holiday season. These labor intensive wreaths make a wonderful gift for anyone who loves wine.

For a great bottle of wine and to rent some cool corks, visit our friends at the Middlebury Fine Wine and Spirits, 1255 Middlebury Rd in Middlebury. Friendly, knowledgeable service. The official wine provider of The Silver Cherry. Weekly wine tast-ing. Check them out on Facebook.

Wicked-Cool Laser Lights For Your House. When I first came upon these laser lights, I thought they would look cheap and tacky. That's until we plugged one of these puppies in and pointed it towards our house. They are very cool looking. Everyone I talked to thought the same as I did initially, until they actually saw them working.

Just place the laser light anywhere in your yard, and point it towards your house. Your house will be showered with thousands of green and red laser lights. Even the trees, grass and bushes in the beam will also be instantly decorated.

These babies are extremely energy efficient, only using a mere 0.005 watts of electricity, and auto-matically turn on when it gets dark and off when the sun comes up. No timer is needed. It can also be left out in all sorts of weather.

There are two settings on the unit. You can have all green lights or both green and red lights. From 40 feet away it will cover 3296 square feet.

We have some very tall spruce trees in our back yard, and we pointed a laser light at them. Now it looks like we decorated the trees with thousands of bright lights.

Decorate your entire outside this holiday season by plugging in a single laser light. Only $46.95.

Liza's Tiny Christmas Trees - These little Christmas Trees will add some festive warmth to your home this year. These tiny artificial trees are mounted on tree branches from our wood pile and stand ap-proximately 13.5 inches tall. They are decorated with 18 high-quality LED lights as well as winter berries and tiny shells from the beaches of Nantucket Island. Liza's Tiny Christmas trees will add a warm glow to your holiday table, mantle, or anywhere in your home where you need some Christmas cheer. Only $14.95 Each - Batteries Included.

Crackled Glass LED Glow Balls - These are really cool LED lights we have added this year. Made from crackled glass, the LED lights are suspended inside each globe. They not only make a festive Christmas decoration, but can be used all year round. Priced at $9.95, $14.95, $19.95. Batteries Included.

This newsletter is dedicated to my Dad, Al Redway who passed away last summer. Not

only was my Dad a wonderful father, a great friend, but he was also a man who never complained about anything and would always put other people before himself. He was a Christian and a gentleman in the truest sense of the word. He taught me the definition of integrity through the way he lived his life. With my Mom, they gave my brother and me a lifetime of wonderful Christmases. If you have one of our Christmas Tables, there is a good chance that my Dad had a hand in building it. We miss him greatly, but we also know that he is with us whenever we need him. Merry Christmas Pop, I Love You!

Nantucket LightsBay Scallop Lights from the beaches of Nantucket. A string of 50 lights with every other light covered with scallop shells. Only $20.00

14" Wreath $60.009.5" Wreath $45.00

Smart-LookingSolid Pine Pizza Peels

Festive White Flocked Wreath

Hey, I don't know where you shop for Christmas decorations, but my wife's favorite destination

is not the big box stores, small specialty shops, or even the vast and ever-expanding world wide web. Her favorite spot is the town dump. That's right, some of our greatest Christmas decorations were dragged out of the cavernous waste containers by my 5 foot 3 inch dumpster-diving spouse.

One of the best treasures she has rescued from the trash compactors, was our seven foot flocked white Christmas tree. At night, the white lights glisten off the white flocking and cast a warm and comforting light throughout the room, as well as a luster of midday to objects below. It's definitely our best tree. That's right, we have more than one tree. Some people like to place those small little candle lights in their windows at Christmas. We like to put full-size Christmas trees in front of each window… well maybe not every window, but with a few more trips to the dump…who knows?

So what the heck does this have to do with the wreath elegantly displayed above? Plenty! This holiday season we are a little more than mildly ecstatic to offer our dear Silver Cherry customers, no less than a flocked WREATH! This handsome wreath is festively covered with white flocking and comes smartly equipped with its own tiny white lights… not those sissy-boy, energy saving LED bulbs, but those full-powered energy-sucking regular white lights we have all grown to love.

Not just for Christmas. This festive wreath can be proudly displayed all winter long. Heck, we keep our undecorated white flocked winter tree up until the middle of March to the absolute amazement of our neighbors. Being festive needs neither an excuse nor an apology.

Come to the Silver Cherry this holiday season and experience the magic of owning your own flocked white wreath. No dumpster-diving necessary. We actually have them in the store. What a unique concept. Only $29.95.

Cool Candles From Liza's End Of The Earth Walk

Each summer when we are vacationing in Nan-tucket, Liza forces us to endure her "End Of

The Earth Walk," a seemingly endless trek to the tip of Smith Point in search of the elusive sea scal-lop and conch shell for Liza's Nantucket Scallop Lights and Shell Candles. This is the part of the island few people dare to venture. But the trek is worth the risk, for the area is teeming with an abundance of shells, a welcoming reward for such a long journey through the marine desert.

Much of the beach is roped off in order to protect the Terns and Piping Plovers, so we move cau-tiously outside the perimeter of protection. There are signs everywhere warning you not to harass or in anyway disturb the birds. It quickly becomes apparent that human beings are the ones who need the protection signs. The Terns, not accustom to bipedal intruders, collectively begin harassing us through an intimidating display of acrobatic aerial maneuvers. After about 20 minutes of being dive bombed and screamed at by the Terns, we throw caution to the wind, ignore the warning signs, and retaliate by hurling our own set of bird insults. "YOUR MOTHER IS A PIGEON!"

Once we have passed the Terns, we are greeted by the Sea Gulls who are even less friendly and you swear they are chanting, "GET OUT! GET OUT!" They are nesting in the area away from the water, so we stay clear and I even attempt to calm them down by telling them I used to be a marine biologist with the Federal Government, and assure them we will not get near their nests. Oddly, they're not impressed.

Once passed the threatening Gulls we finally arrive at THE PLACE where there is a huge bounty of scallop and conch shells. We quickly fill our bags to the brim and like thieves in the night, silently and swiftly depart for the long journey back to the house. These efforts are worth it, because this year, not only has Liza created some very beautiful Nantucket Scallop lights, but also these beautiful soy Conch Candles.

Come to The Silver Cherry this Christmas for not only a beautiful gift, but a gift with a wildly adventurous story. You can't get that on Amazon. Prices starting at $8.95 No birds were harassed (maybe a few insulted) in the making of these items.

Making Pizza at home can be rather tricky if you don't know what you are doing. It took

us years to get it down, and with the help of our wonderful neighbors the DeMayos, some great Italian 00 Pizza flour, and a great dough recipe, we now make great pizza at home.

But it wasn't always like that. I remember one of our first attempts. We had the pizza stone, the cornmeal and the store-bought dough. I did my part. I made a giant, smart-looking solid cherry pizza peel, like the ones they use in restaurants.

The first step was to heat the oven. We knew that pizza parlors always have really hot ovens, so we decided to follow suit and get our oven is hot as we possibly could without actually setting it to self clean. That was a big mistake. As soon as we threw the cornmeal on to the stone, it was like someone heaved a smoke bomb into our kitchen. Through the shrill of smoke detectors, one thought kept shooting through my mind, - Stop, Drop, And Roll.

Crawling on all fours, I managed to locate the kitchen door, open it and ventilate some of the thick smoke that had enveloped the room. Taking a few seconds to get my bearings, I managed to locate my wife who was still hanging tough at the door of the oven trying to negotiate the uncooked pizza on to the pizza stone. And that’s when it happened. Using my smart looking solid cherry pizza peel, with me proudly standing over her, she attempted to reposition the pizza on the stone. In one fateful move, that neither of us had ever anticipated, she folded the pizza right in half. Bam, in two seconds she had made our pizza into a giant calzone.

“I could go for calzone tonight”, I quietly thought to myself. But before I could calm her she had already planned her next move. In utter frustration and in a fit of rage, my wife shoveled up the inverted pizza on to my smart looking, solid cherry pizza peel, and with the force and speed of a skilled Jai-Alai player, she catapulted the pizza right out the open kitchen door and on to the lawn. So much for pizza or calzone.

No need for you to endure such frustration, because this year, if you purchase one of our smart-looking solid pine pizza peels we will give you are fool-proof pizza dough recipe and cooking instructions absolutely free. Order now and we will also include the handy dandy rawhide pizza peel hanger at no additional charge.

Only $15.00

Only $14.95

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Merry Christmas

OPEN HOUSE THIS WEEKEND!

Woodenware Firehouse Blend Seasoning

JAMES REDWAY

Furniture MakersAmerican Furniture

Firehouse Blend Seasoning - Whenever anyone puts Firehouse in a name, people assume that

it must be hot. Not the case here. This is a great seasoning mix we have used for years to prepare mouth-watering barbecues, and a host of other great dishes.

If you buy just one item at The Silver Cherry thisChristmas, it should be our Knightlite Firehouse Blend Seasoning. Knightlite Software is our com-pany and we have gotten together with a local Connecticut spice company to create this special Firehouse Seasoning blend. Firehouses across this land are filled with great chefs that take the time to still prepare food the way their parents and grandparents did. This seasoning is for those who still care about the way they cook.

Knightlite Firehouse Blend Seasoning is a full-bodied, all purpose seasoning containing onion, garlic, pepper, carrot, tomato, orange, basil, celery seed, mustard, citric acid, parsley, lemon, corian-der, cumin, lemon and vegetable oils, red pepper, oregano, marjoram, and bay leaves. It gives lively flavor to chicken, steaks, lamb chops, burgers, potatoes, vegetable dishes, salad dressings, dips, and sandwiches. Its GLUTEN FREE, SUGAR and SODIUM FREE, and contains NO MSG!

Come to our Christmas Open House Weekend and sample some "What-The-Heck Smells So Good Chicken Wings." A great stocking stuffer.

Only $6.50 for an 8 oz bottle. That's enough to last until you are flipping burgers on the 4th of July.

Our new Salt Crystal Lamps are beautifully handcrafted from the purest rock salt in the

world and excavated (at 1000 meters deep) from the oldest and finest mines in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Himalayan salt crystal lamps are naturally beautiful and ambient while generating powerful negative ions; which are scientifically proven to enhance human health, environment, and well-being.

Negative ions have long been considered healthy; the sea air, mountain air and the air around swiftly running water is high in negative ions. Indoor air, recirculated air, and air around electronic equip-ment is very low in negative ions. It has been shown that negative ions in the air bind with airborne pollutants, making them heavier so that they fall to the ground, and therefore are unavailable to be inhaled. Many modern air purifiers - the so-called "ionic air cleaners" - use this technique to provide cleaner indoor air for allergy sufferers.

What a great gift. The warm glow of these lamps enhances the ambience of any room while at the same time improving the air quality. Each lamp stands approximately 7 to 8 inches high. Each lamp is unique and throws off a slightly different glow. The salt lamps also have a unique dial that allows you to manually adjust the brightness of the lamp. Only $29.95

Warm Salt LampsHelp Improve Your Health

The Redway Blade - Handmade solid cherry kitchen cooking tool. Better than a wooden spoon or plastic spatula. The Redway Blade is finely polished and feels silky smooth in your hand. Finished with extra virgin olive oil.

Two edges of the tool are beveled to allow you to chop vegetables right in the pan. Use it to deglaze a pan by making it easy to scrape off the tasty bits of flavor left behind by other kitchen utensils.Only $9.00.

Perfect Hostess GiftButter BoardsOnly $15.00

Santa is hiding somewhere on the sales floor of The Silver Cherry.Find Santa and win a free -Redway Blade $9.00 Value!